Dumb question.

Post by **still.trucking** » July 7th, 2009, 11:03 am

What words would you use to describe the light from lightning that lights up the night brighter than the sun but not as warmly?

Post by **Doreen Peri** » July 7th, 2009, 11:24 am

Dumb answer: Light.

heh

Post by **still.trucking** » July 7th, 2009, 11:41 am

I don't know what it was about that light Doreen? It was so pure white, as if all the other colors of the rainbow that make up visible light were gone. So very bright maybe like a million mercury vapor lamps. A dreadful light.

Thanks for taking a stab at it. It was helpful. I been struggling with a description of a night the tornado's were moving through west Texas and I was stuck out on a dark and stormy night (ha) with no place to hide.

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Post by **Jacob** » July 15th, 2009, 5:27 pm

How about Prismatic Spray?

Post by **Artguy** » July 16th, 2009, 3:42 pm

God's flashbulb...

Post by **Barry** » July 16th, 2009, 7:36 pm

arc light?

Peace,
Barry
PS: dumb answer

Post by **mtmynd** » July 16th, 2009, 9:53 pm

a brilliant light that outshone the sun for a quick moment leaving me breathless, speechless and in complete and total awe at the magnificence of nature's power and glory..?

Post by **hester_prynne** » July 18th, 2009, 12:41 pm

Snowlight

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Post by **stilltrucking** » July 18th, 2009, 4:31 pm

I told you it was a dumb question.

Brilliant replies

thank you all.

I suppose a better question would have been to describe what I saw ahead of me when the lightning lit up the world like a flash bulb

Snow light I like that theda
Maybe more like the most brilliant moon light I have ever seen.

I had a grip on my seat with both cheeks

Post by **Jacob** » July 24th, 2009, 3:15 am

Joy Strike

Post by **stilltrucking** » August 17th, 2009, 3:20 am

Joy strike,
I was happy for the light
in a way
because I could see the wall cloud and the funnel shapes moving out of it.
But it was a cold joy.

I have never seen so many tornados at one time.
When the lightning flashed the night was lit with an eerie blue white light that lasted for seconds, it was not a quick flash and fade to darkness. And in those seconds I searched for someplace to hide but there was nothing. So I keep on keeping on into the oncoming storm.

Life is cheap
on the road

Post by **Jacob** » August 19th, 2009, 4:28 pm

Crystal Night

Sorry, still trying to find word to describe yon topic question. Is fun.

Post by **stilltrucking** » August 19th, 2009, 4:47 pm

It lasted so long. It was not a quick flash and fade to black. Maybe it was multiple flashes one after another so the light was continuous. It turned the night into day.

Crystal Night, yes it was cold white light, something like a mercury vapor lamp.

You can see so far in the panhandle of Texas, at night you can see the lights of Lubbock from miles away, you think you are getting close but you drive for another hour before you get there. I I think you can see those light from 50 or a hundred miles away. Not sure if that is possible to see that far to the horizon. The land is so flat, I guess you could, I think you can see that far on the ocean.

So those storms might have been a hundred miles away. First time I saw a "wall cloud" I think they are called. A solid wall of black.

Thanks